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Sophocles

Sophocles

Trachiniae. Sprachen: Neugriechisch. 20,3 cm / 12,7 cm / 1,7 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780521287760
51,40 €
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272 Seiten
August 2004
Cambridge University Press

The Introduction is designed to be of use to readers who do not know Greek, as well as to specialists.

Sophocles was born in 496 BCE in Colonus and died in 406 BCE inAthens. He is one of the three great tragedians of ancient Greece and isbest known for Oedipus Rex. Women of Trachis is thought to be one of hisearliest tragedies, though there is no definitive date for its composition.Sophocles is said to have won first prize at the Festival of Dionysus at leasteighteen times.

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The play; 2. Stage action; 3. The myth; 4. The date; Trachiniae; Commentary; Appendices; Glossary of metrical terms; Indexes; Map of Trachis and the Malian Gulf.